Collective-action problems lead people to believe their own small contribution will matter or spur others even when it will not, which underlies confused individual and subnational efforts on climate change.

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Speaker

Cass Sunstein

Evidence Quote

it's like with many collective action problems that people think that their own contribution will do something or spur something even if it won't that's the confusion

Source

Cass Sunstein on Worst-case Scenarios 11/19/2007EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:17:23 AM

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